Word: ranch
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Edward of Wales and his youngest brother, Prince George, ended their official tour of Canada (TIME, Aug. 1 et seq.) and settled down last week at Edward's "E.P." ranch in Pekisko, Alberta, Canada...
...citizens know that "E.P." stands for "Edward, Prince," fewer still recall that the Province of Alberta was named after Edward's great-grandfather, the Prince Consort Albert; and very few persons indeed realize that the "E. P." Ranch is not a princeling's toy but a strictly paying livestock investment...
Later, His Royal Highness motored over to Calgary, the neighboring capital of Alberta, and jovially addressed an official gathering, thus: "It is a delight for me to come down from my 'rawnch,' but perhaps I should say ranch." "I am told," continued "Edward, Prince," "that there is a difference between a rawnch and a ranch. A ranch pays, and a rawnch doesn't, but I am not going to give away which my place is." The Canadian tour of Prime Minister & Mrs. Stanley Baldwin diverged from that of the Princes last week as scheduled, and the Baldwin...
...Baldwin were making the same tour as the Princes last week, as far as Calgary, Alberta, where Edward of Wales and his brother George were to remain for some time at his ranch (TIME...
...will feed the cats on rats and will start a rat ranch adjoining the cat ranch. The rats will multiply four times as fast as the cats, and if we start with 100,000 rats we will have four rats a day for each cat, which is plenty...